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the carolina watchman ol r v third series salisbury n.c february 21 1884 no 29 l\pcmnieiy i xxv x"x 3po3e1 mini just a moment it may be greatly to your profit to buy your irainit acid phosphate and guanos ivhoni you run sell your cotton c â€” i have now ready and am selling very day tor ea>h or on time to suit my customers royster's iiiuii mil mo riium is t he best acid sold in the state beyond doubt â€” also the asiep00 acid phosphate . so high in georgia and south carolina that they pay 1 p"r ton more for jjjg . is but i will sull at a small profit to meet prices of other brands also 1 have the bust german kainit on sale in the country for < omposting c are the very best that can be got anywhere there & â€ž, â€ž.. tter 1 iall at once get prices and put in your orders j d gaskill ffmaccol f ever you hr.d a showing for fine prices it is in the crop of tobacco to be planted this year jÂ»j * * *â– * w w * r i is â€¢'? â€¢ v Â» 9 99 y 9 r 9 p2 *'Â» f â™¦'* 9 m - vi m 1 ''; 1 1 1 wi keep a store and strive to have in that store everything a farmer would like both for himself and liis family we want our customer to be a cheerful man imi if lie has money in liis purse he will be cheerful but lie can't be if when he comes â– â– ;>. it brings liini little or nothing everybody knows that on the fertilizer ning the season to lÂ»e at all fa orable depends the result of his crop and ig the cusc he lias no ri^lit to risk that crop on anything that lias not been i . â– â€¢â– /. the following will show what lius been tried and proved in the tine tobacco and major ragland of halifax county va the great â€¢ . authority and grower of pedigree tobacco seed is the man who tells about it if anybody inavt what tobacco is he certainly does are several brands of fertilizer manufactured specially for tobacco differing n composition price and merit ami after repeated experiments with most if not all be best the author gives it as his decided opinion that for fine hright silky tohnccc jothoii equals the anchor<Â§>brand co fertilizer prepared by the southern fertilizing company richmond na and tins opinion is based upon seventeen years trial and often in competition with the bwt dt other brands on the market i is a trial and proved fertilizer which the plant tr can use without the risk of getting something unsuited to his crop and therefore i can rÂ«rommcd it with confidence mossrs mathevrs & williamson of reidsville n c wrote the following to the company and state that they have seen nothing since to change their judgment from ur own personal experience and it covers a long time in watching the re sults from the use of various brands of commercial fertilizers handled in this section it nature judgment that the anchor brand stands at the head of all production ot line silky yellow tobacco the plant seems to receive more fitting nourishment from the use of this article than from any other and we are of opinion that it our farmers made it their stand-by we would hear less of light chaffy tobacco having some t lor but no body and that the farmer would realise tlio result he ought j from labor for low-grade tobacco will not bring big money v>>\v we v ou to have liii money for your crop because we not only desire make go bills with us but pay for them when they are made hence we han ancho brand and will supply you in quantities to suit direct from the : we don't want people to abuse us about their fertilizer we therefore sell fliat time has ehown to be the best so make no arrangements in this line until t or confer with us you certainly can't afford to take anv risk this year j d gaskill cotton ! h^^o^ii 1 will have this season in larger quantity than ever before the old relia *** * sea fowl guano ttl l \". it is ;> pleasure to sell this brand because it pleases and one fact notice is that it has increased in sales the last two years whioh no other lone in this market also 1 will have hymans & dancy's premium gua1no which is one of the favorites of cabarrus farmers ind stands any higher with them and we all know that they are good and mere and especially raise fine huge crops of cotton accommodate my friends and customers i will keep on baud a full*tock of corn meal oats cotton seed meal bran ship stuff dacon molasses salt that ] will 6^11 for cas|i ur barter ver low also will sell on time kt have a small lot of prime clover sked j d gaskill 'â– â– â– ive completed the m isl conven}en.l guano warehouse l:i town near holmes tan yard the silver lining tjn-r's never a lav so sunny but a little cloud appears ; here's never a life ho happy but has its time of tears ; et the sun shines out the blighter whenever the tempest clears there's never a garden growing with roses in every plot ; there's never a heart so hardened but it has one tender rpot ; we have only to prune the border to find the forget-me-not there's never a sun that rises but we know twill set at night ; the tints that gleam in the morning at evening are just as bright and the hour that is the sweetest is between the dark and light there's never a dream so happy but the waking makes us sad ; there's never a dream of sorrow but the waking makes us glad ; we shall look some day with wonder at the troubles we have had in earth and heaven you pity me sitting louely in the dark of the summer day when home to your happy hearthstone the children come from play i feel your eyes upon me as you stroke the curly heads and get the darlings ready for their cosy little beds but i am not so lonely for years and years ago before my brow was wrinkled or my hair was full of snow a baby lay on my bosom â€” winsome as those you kiss â€” and i learned in one brief summer what a mother's heaven is since he died i have not forgotten though my anna will ache to hold again to my heart the baby with hair of morning's gold that i am an angel's mother and so when your babes you kiss i kiss my child who is wnting in another world than this terrible tragedy in arkansas hot springs ark , feb 9 a terrible tragedy was enacted on the main street f thia city this morning at about 11 o'clock three brothers named frank jack and william flynn â€” were proceed ing home in a hack when a party of bot en men aimed with double-barrelled shotguns and winchester rifles stepped out from the door of a saloon and oj>Â«*iifd fire the flyiins were aimed but the attack was totally unexpected jack flynn was shot through the head by a ball from a winchester rifle and died in a few minutes william was shut thro the breast and the wound will probably prove fatal frank received a shot thro the hand inflicting a slight wound frank hall the driver of the hack was shot through the back of the neck and died an hour afterward itobert hargrave a bystander was shot through the breast and will probably die j h craig a prominent lumberman received a charge of buckshot through the back and his condition is considered precarious the difficulty originated some weeks ago in au effort of frank flvnu to pre vent one doran from opening a gambling house it culminated lit the time in do ran making a cowardly attempt to assas sinate frank failing in which lie fled the city he returned a few nights ago but flynn was unaware of his presence in the city until the fatal volley opened on him the sevmi men who did the shoot ing were arrested and are now in jail they are s a doran two prnitt broth ers a man uamed howell and three oth ers tlie most intense excitement pre ! vails and strong threats of lynching the prisoners me made citizens are loud in their condemnation of the murderous and cowardly act judge wood has been telegraphed to by leading citizeus re questing him to adjourn his court at malvern and return here and hold a rpe i cial session to try the murderers if he consents the law will probably bo allow to take its course if not the citizens j boldly threaten to burn the jail and hang the prisoners o 3iysterious and horrible suffer ings of a pennsylvauian a most remarkable case of human sof ' fering 8.13-8 a philadelphia special to the baltimore day and one which has stead ily baffled medical science is reported in springfield erie county pa william fergerson when 7 years of age was seized with severe pains in his right hand and though lie is now 4(5 years of age he has been hnnually attacked singularly i though at each time suffering more than at the preceding convulsions and paroxysms now visit him at exactly the same period of the ! year and always at the same hour in the evening he is now suffering the most ' acute agony and is visited by scores of physicians who in every case have been baffled by this peculiar freak of nature his body becomes terribly contorted j respiration almost ceases and he be ; comes for the time being unconscious j and on awakening shows every evidence ! of having passed through a most terrible ordeal on being restored lie becomes perfectly well and is only troubled at intervals of a year but with positive reg ularity thia case can only be accounted for by the fact that fergerson's mother shortly before his birth saw the contortions aud evidences of agony in a snake which had been thrown into the tire and he has be come thus bii tli-ium led fukman's farm wonderful work when i determined to go to farm ing five years ago i saw that it would not do to farm in vie old way i saw farmers around me getting poorer ev ery day though they worked like â– slaves i saw them starving their land so that each year their yield was scantier and their farms less valuable i saw that it was still the plow fol lowing the axe and that as fast as the farmer starved out a piÂ»ce of land he cleared out a new piece worse than all i saw that my own laud rented to small farmers was 35 peb cent poorer and less val uable than it was a few years ago and that it would soon cease to pay me rent i knew that georgia was blessed with the best conditions of season and soil and that if properly treated il would yield large results i therefore selected sixty-five acres of the poorest land i had and went to work the first thing of course was to enrich the soil to do this there was but one way to feed it and give it more food than the crops took from it and above all to give it proper food i knew that certain phosphat ic manures stimulated the soil so that it produced heavy crops for a while aud then theu fell off i wanted none of these i did not believe in soil analysis that was not exact enough what i wanted was to know ex actly what a perfect cotton plant took from the soil that ascertained then restore to the soil exactly those ele ments in larger quantity than the crop had abstracted from it this is the ba sis of intensive farming and it will always give land that is richer year after year i had a cotton plant an : alyzed and found that i needed eight elements in my manure which com mercial fertilizers furnished only three and the soil only one i therefore determined to buy chemicals and mix ! them with humus muck decayed i leaves stable manure and cotton seed till i liaj secured exactly what was needed i did so and at last produc ed a perfect compost for cotton i then ascertained that my crop of eight bales had taken out of each acre of i my land as much of the constituents of cotton as was held iu 250 pounds of my compost i therefore put 500 pounds of compost on each acre re storing double what the crop of the year before had taken out the re sult was that i made four bales extra i then restored double what the twelve bales had taken out and made twenty three bales i doubled the restora tion the next year and got forty-seven bales i doubled again and this year have at least eighty bales the manure cost me 3.60 a thou sand pounds the first year i put 500 pounds to the acre â€” cost 1.80 an acre or 111 for sixty-five acres but try crop rose from eight to twelve bales the extra four bales giving me 200 surplus or 83 net on my manure next year my manure 1,000 pounds to the acre cost 235 j but my crop increased to twenty-three b;i!es from eight on unmanured land these extra bales give me 750 or a net profit on manure of 516 the next year i used 2,000 pounds per acre at a cost 7.25 an acre or 471 for total but my crop went from eight to forty-seven bales giving increased income of 1,500 this i year i use 4,000 pounds on an acre j costing 14.50 or 942 for total nian i ure but my crop is at least eighty ! bales with this manure where it was eight without this increase of sev ! enty-two bales is worth 3,600 de duct cost of manure 940 and we have 2,650 as the profit on use of manure and then the land is so much richer certainly it is worth 100 an acre where it was formerly worth 5 you must credit the manure with ! thia i shall double my manuring next year putting 8,000 pounds to the acre i believe i will get 150 bales : from the 65 acres i hope to push it up to three bales an acre i have a few \ acres on which i put 10,000 pounds of compost as an experiment and ev â– ery acre of it will give me three bales this year the formula for the compost here is my formula take thirty i bushels of well-rotted stable manure or well-rotted organic matter as leaves muck etc and scatter it about three inches thick upon a piece of ground so situated that water will not statnd on it but shed off in every di rection the thirty bushels will weigh about nine hundred pounds take two hundred pounds of good phosphates which cost me 22.50 per ton delivered making the 200 pounds cost 2.25 and 100 pounds kainit which cost me by the ton 14 deliv ered or 70 cents for 100 pounds ami mix the acid phosphate and kainit thoroughly then scatter evenly on the manure then next thirty bush els green cotton seed aud distribute evenly over the pile and wet them thoroughly ; they will wei-h nine hundred pounds take again two hun dred pounds acid phosphate and one hundred pounds kainit mix and spread over the seed begin on the manure and keep on in this way building up your heap layer by layei until you get it as high as conveni ent then cover with six inches of rich earth from the fence corners and leave at least a week ; when ready tc haul to the field cut with a spade or pickaxe square down and mix as thoroughly as possible now we have thirty bushels of manure weigh ing nine hundred pounds and three hundred pounds chemicals in the first layer and thirty bushels cotton seeds weighing nine hundred pounds and three hundred pounds of chemicals in the second layer and these two layers combined for the perfect compost you perceive that the weight is 2,400 valued at cost ia : 30 bushels cotton seed - - 3.75 400 pounds acid phosphate - 4.50 200 pounds kainit - - 1.40 stable manure nominal total - - - 9.60 or for 2,400 pounds a total value of nine dollars and sixty-five cents this mixture makes practically a perfect manure for cotton and a splen did application for corn it restores to the soil everything the cotton toek from it except silica which is in the soil in inexhaustible quantity so that when you put in a larger quanti ty of these than the cotton took out your soil is evidently richer i have shown you the money profit in man ure i've shown you the added val ue it gives to land there are many other advantages you make your crop quicker and with less danger i made last year mark this forty seven bales on sixty-five acres in three months and five days it was plant ! ed june 5th and the caterpiler finish ed it on september 10th i showed the agricultural society a stalk five fret high with 126 bolls by actual count on it the seed from which this i plant grew was planted just fifty-nine j days before cotton grown this way j can be picked with half the cost and ; time of ordinary cotton on my cot i ton land this year i raised 100 bush ( els of oats to the acre and after clean i ing off the stubble 1 plandted the i cotton one stalk of which 1 showed the convention 1 ' one is not to drop tiie cotton seed in a continuous row but simply to put a few seed in the hill where you want a plant by strewing the seed in a sprinkled row there is a great waste a col ton seed is like an egg when the chick is born there is noth ing but the shell left the fertilizing power of this seed is lost worse than this it draws from the soil for the ! elements that make it grow it is i left to deplete the soil in this way for ! two weeks at least and is then chop ped down leaving only one out of ! twenty plants to grow to fruitage my plan is to plant four or five seed ' in a hill the hills to stand in four feet squares of these i would let two plants to the hill grow to perfec tion it takes from two to four ! bushels of seed to plant an acre in the ! old way by my plan a peck to the acre is enough and the soil is not drawn to support a multitude of sur plus plants for two or three weeks planting in four foot squares is belter than the old way cotton is a sun plant and needs room for its roots wneu cramped to 12 or 15 inches it cannot attain its perfect growth my aim is to put the plants two together in four foot squares and average 75 to 150 bolls to the plant this will give me a pound of seed cotton to the plant or three bales to the acre i never touch it with a ho the growth of cotton comes from the spreading filaments that reach out from the root and feed it li these are destroyed the growth stops until they are restored i am satisfied that three hoeings lost me eighteen days of growth or six days each 1 run a shallow plow along the cotton rows and never go deep enough to c it the roots but there are more details in which men may differ the main thing is the intensive system of ma nuring and the husbanding all the droppings and wastage of the farm for compost i can take 100 acres of land in georgia and at a nominal cost can bring its production from a sixth of a bale to three bales an acre in five years auy man can do it my tenants are adopting the in tensive plan and are very much en couraged some few neighbors are using ruy formula i have sent out is.pposefive hundred formulas for composting the speech x made be fore the agricultural association crea ted more excitement than anything for years the members did not rel ish my statements i saw plainly they sent e g greer the secretary to milledgeville to see my crops and verity my statements he is to-day the most enthusiastic man in georgia over the system i am working on you understand added mr fur man in conclusion that i have no possible interest iu the matter outside of my crops 1 have uu receipt to sell no phosphates no fancy seed no land what i have done lias been with common seed on poor land with ! j cheap manure and any man without , : price or purchase can do what i have jdone i am satisfied to make my i money out of tlie ground i want none j from my fellow-farmers the difficulty with us all is that Â» i we try to farm too much land i'm â€¢ , good for 3,000 with two mules and i j sixty-five acres next year i'll beat ! this in tlie meantime i'm hi ing ing up twenty-five new acres i nev i er want over one hundred acres these i j i will cultivate with three mule and i'll make 250 bales of cotton on them besides all the corn and oats i need i am anxious lie added to see my plan adopted if it is done we shall have the best state in the world why look at france her recupera tive power i's the wonder of the world j and what is it based on simply that ishe can raise two crops â€” one of those i a lentil crop â€” in one season 15ut in middle georgia i can raise three crops per season ou a piece of land and leave it richer than when i started viz outs cotton or corn and peas there is nothing like it jive me 100 acres of land like the sixty-five that i own nÂ»w and i don't want an orange grove or a factory or a truck farm or anything else i can live on my 100 acres of georgia scrub land like a king and lay up money every 1 ' â– 3 â„¢"" < â„¢"â„¢"^Â»^ year any ( f ( , r gian can have this i in five years if he â€¢.â– ;, ft the rule i have followi-d will |> r ii - i ;.. as the sun brii gs uat mid light ! what t.n mkx"as pkxsioxs v ni , , cost.-if the bill recently reported from i tlie house committee on ivm which provides for the payment of pension to soldiers ol the mexijan and india wars becomesa law it i estimated that the cost ot the government will be about j,d/0,49b,and that the average life of each pedrionei will be abont fotirtem years i hen are liring to-day 11,000 snrvivora of the mexican war and a 27tl who fonght in the florida creek and ni;uj hawk war making a total of 14,276 roldier8 who will receive neiuieus n the i ill become a law caxixe itelligence the lateitstorj i of canine intelligence cornea from san francisco a rntleinan foud of whisky punch on one occasion after taking his third glass iucantiouslj trod upon his ! favorite dog which osnallj lav upon tlio hearth rag in front of him while lie in dulged in his potations after that tlie i dog carefully watched bis master after dinner and the moment the second tnm bler was finished gravelv left the room the item the skin of a boiled e^u is the most ef ficious remedjr that can !>â€¢ applied to a i boil peel it careful lj wot and apply it [ to the part affected it will draw offtho j matter and relieve tlie soreness in a hours this space reserved for sheppard swink & monroe proprietors kluttz's warehouse for the sale of leaf tobacco salisbury n c and will completely change the blood in the entire system in three months any person who will take 1 fill each night from 1 to 18 weeks may be i lurod to sound health if such a thing be possible for female complaints these pills have no oqaxu physicians use them for the cure of litek and kidney diseases kold everywhere or sent by mall for 25c in stamps circulars free i s johnson &. co doston matt johnschn'3 awodywe 2rl -- â€” -- _!.-- ik|jm stamps funiiiheii in law rnrn,{'rlc<-fl tiy mall w-kk chicken cholera hÂ«ria is joit *Â«>..Â»Â«Â»Â», iu ; dec so 1383 lftly have largest and most complete stock of i dry goods x^fj and notions to loo found in tlao i'o-c^-za of sÂ«vliÂ»tcs-ix*-y a splendid line of black and colored oashmers from 12j to -â€¢'. i ent |- i we bave the cheapest and largest loi of silk velvets velveteens ai trimming sili\s to be foiitid in the cit we offer as a special bargain all-wool-filling worsted the latest shades nt 10 cents k-r yard ti.i goods is worth one third rr.t cannot be bad at tins extremely 1 > v ri â– â€¢ uut side of oui ll'^:^h cloab circulars dalmans anfi jackp are pretty and cheap from 2 to 18 ep-also a nice line of jersey jackets shawls kmt jackets ic carpets rugs boos mats p b 0 ots and shoes at low price i aaericai lavls & royal st hx snhi idte

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the carolina watchman ol r v third series salisbury n.c february 21 1884 no 29 l\pcmnieiy i xxv x"x 3po3e1 mini just a moment it may be greatly to your profit to buy your irainit acid phosphate and guanos ivhoni you run sell your cotton c â€” i have now ready and am selling very day tor ea>h or on time to suit my customers royster's iiiuii mil mo riium is t he best acid sold in the state beyond doubt â€” also the asiep00 acid phosphate . so high in georgia and south carolina that they pay 1 p"r ton more for jjjg . is but i will sull at a small profit to meet prices of other brands also 1 have the bust german kainit on sale in the country for < omposting c are the very best that can be got anywhere there & â€ž, â€ž.. tter 1 iall at once get prices and put in your orders j d gaskill ffmaccol f ever you hr.d a showing for fine prices it is in the crop of tobacco to be planted this year jÂ»j * * *â– * w w * r i is â€¢'? â€¢ v Â» 9 99 y 9 r 9 p2 *'Â» f â™¦'* 9 m - vi m 1 ''; 1 1 1 wi keep a store and strive to have in that store everything a farmer would like both for himself and liis family we want our customer to be a cheerful man imi if lie has money in liis purse he will be cheerful but lie can't be if when he comes â– â– ;>. it brings liini little or nothing everybody knows that on the fertilizer ning the season to lÂ»e at all fa orable depends the result of his crop and ig the cusc he lias no ri^lit to risk that crop on anything that lias not been i . â– â€¢â– /. the following will show what lius been tried and proved in the tine tobacco and major ragland of halifax county va the great â€¢ . authority and grower of pedigree tobacco seed is the man who tells about it if anybody inavt what tobacco is he certainly does are several brands of fertilizer manufactured specially for tobacco differing n composition price and merit ami after repeated experiments with most if not all be best the author gives it as his decided opinion that for fine hright silky tohnccc jothoii equals the anchorbrand co fertilizer prepared by the southern fertilizing company richmond na and tins opinion is based upon seventeen years trial and often in competition with the bwt dt other brands on the market i is a trial and proved fertilizer which the plant tr can use without the risk of getting something unsuited to his crop and therefore i can rÂ«rommcd it with confidence mossrs mathevrs & williamson of reidsville n c wrote the following to the company and state that they have seen nothing since to change their judgment from ur own personal experience and it covers a long time in watching the re sults from the use of various brands of commercial fertilizers handled in this section it nature judgment that the anchor brand stands at the head of all production ot line silky yellow tobacco the plant seems to receive more fitting nourishment from the use of this article than from any other and we are of opinion that it our farmers made it their stand-by we would hear less of light chaffy tobacco having some t lor but no body and that the farmer would realise tlio result he ought j from labor for low-grade tobacco will not bring big money v>>\v we v ou to have liii money for your crop because we not only desire make go bills with us but pay for them when they are made hence we han ancho brand and will supply you in quantities to suit direct from the : we don't want people to abuse us about their fertilizer we therefore sell fliat time has ehown to be the best so make no arrangements in this line until t or confer with us you certainly can't afford to take anv risk this year j d gaskill cotton ! h^^o^ii 1 will have this season in larger quantity than ever before the old relia *** * sea fowl guano ttl l \". it is ;> pleasure to sell this brand because it pleases and one fact notice is that it has increased in sales the last two years whioh no other lone in this market also 1 will have hymans & dancy's premium gua1no which is one of the favorites of cabarrus farmers ind stands any higher with them and we all know that they are good and mere and especially raise fine huge crops of cotton accommodate my friends and customers i will keep on baud a full*tock of corn meal oats cotton seed meal bran ship stuff dacon molasses salt that ] will 6^11 for cas|i ur barter ver low also will sell on time kt have a small lot of prime clover sked j d gaskill 'â– â– â– ive completed the m isl conven}en.l guano warehouse l:i town near holmes tan yard the silver lining tjn-r's never a lav so sunny but a little cloud appears ; here's never a life ho happy but has its time of tears ; et the sun shines out the blighter whenever the tempest clears there's never a garden growing with roses in every plot ; there's never a heart so hardened but it has one tender rpot ; we have only to prune the border to find the forget-me-not there's never a sun that rises but we know twill set at night ; the tints that gleam in the morning at evening are just as bright and the hour that is the sweetest is between the dark and light there's never a dream so happy but the waking makes us sad ; there's never a dream of sorrow but the waking makes us glad ; we shall look some day with wonder at the troubles we have had in earth and heaven you pity me sitting louely in the dark of the summer day when home to your happy hearthstone the children come from play i feel your eyes upon me as you stroke the curly heads and get the darlings ready for their cosy little beds but i am not so lonely for years and years ago before my brow was wrinkled or my hair was full of snow a baby lay on my bosom â€” winsome as those you kiss â€” and i learned in one brief summer what a mother's heaven is since he died i have not forgotten though my anna will ache to hold again to my heart the baby with hair of morning's gold that i am an angel's mother and so when your babes you kiss i kiss my child who is wnting in another world than this terrible tragedy in arkansas hot springs ark , feb 9 a terrible tragedy was enacted on the main street f thia city this morning at about 11 o'clock three brothers named frank jack and william flynn â€” were proceed ing home in a hack when a party of bot en men aimed with double-barrelled shotguns and winchester rifles stepped out from the door of a saloon and oj>Â«*iifd fire the flyiins were aimed but the attack was totally unexpected jack flynn was shot through the head by a ball from a winchester rifle and died in a few minutes william was shut thro the breast and the wound will probably prove fatal frank received a shot thro the hand inflicting a slight wound frank hall the driver of the hack was shot through the back of the neck and died an hour afterward itobert hargrave a bystander was shot through the breast and will probably die j h craig a prominent lumberman received a charge of buckshot through the back and his condition is considered precarious the difficulty originated some weeks ago in au effort of frank flvnu to pre vent one doran from opening a gambling house it culminated lit the time in do ran making a cowardly attempt to assas sinate frank failing in which lie fled the city he returned a few nights ago but flynn was unaware of his presence in the city until the fatal volley opened on him the sevmi men who did the shoot ing were arrested and are now in jail they are s a doran two prnitt broth ers a man uamed howell and three oth ers tlie most intense excitement pre ! vails and strong threats of lynching the prisoners me made citizens are loud in their condemnation of the murderous and cowardly act judge wood has been telegraphed to by leading citizeus re questing him to adjourn his court at malvern and return here and hold a rpe i cial session to try the murderers if he consents the law will probably bo allow to take its course if not the citizens j boldly threaten to burn the jail and hang the prisoners o 3iysterious and horrible suffer ings of a pennsylvauian a most remarkable case of human sof ' fering 8.13-8 a philadelphia special to the baltimore day and one which has stead ily baffled medical science is reported in springfield erie county pa william fergerson when 7 years of age was seized with severe pains in his right hand and though lie is now 4(5 years of age he has been hnnually attacked singularly i though at each time suffering more than at the preceding convulsions and paroxysms now visit him at exactly the same period of the ! year and always at the same hour in the evening he is now suffering the most ' acute agony and is visited by scores of physicians who in every case have been baffled by this peculiar freak of nature his body becomes terribly contorted j respiration almost ceases and he be ; comes for the time being unconscious j and on awakening shows every evidence ! of having passed through a most terrible ordeal on being restored lie becomes perfectly well and is only troubled at intervals of a year but with positive reg ularity thia case can only be accounted for by the fact that fergerson's mother shortly before his birth saw the contortions aud evidences of agony in a snake which had been thrown into the tire and he has be come thus bii tli-ium led fukman's farm wonderful work when i determined to go to farm ing five years ago i saw that it would not do to farm in vie old way i saw farmers around me getting poorer ev ery day though they worked like â– slaves i saw them starving their land so that each year their yield was scantier and their farms less valuable i saw that it was still the plow fol lowing the axe and that as fast as the farmer starved out a piÂ»ce of land he cleared out a new piece worse than all i saw that my own laud rented to small farmers was 35 peb cent poorer and less val uable than it was a few years ago and that it would soon cease to pay me rent i knew that georgia was blessed with the best conditions of season and soil and that if properly treated il would yield large results i therefore selected sixty-five acres of the poorest land i had and went to work the first thing of course was to enrich the soil to do this there was but one way to feed it and give it more food than the crops took from it and above all to give it proper food i knew that certain phosphat ic manures stimulated the soil so that it produced heavy crops for a while aud then theu fell off i wanted none of these i did not believe in soil analysis that was not exact enough what i wanted was to know ex actly what a perfect cotton plant took from the soil that ascertained then restore to the soil exactly those ele ments in larger quantity than the crop had abstracted from it this is the ba sis of intensive farming and it will always give land that is richer year after year i had a cotton plant an : alyzed and found that i needed eight elements in my manure which com mercial fertilizers furnished only three and the soil only one i therefore determined to buy chemicals and mix ! them with humus muck decayed i leaves stable manure and cotton seed till i liaj secured exactly what was needed i did so and at last produc ed a perfect compost for cotton i then ascertained that my crop of eight bales had taken out of each acre of i my land as much of the constituents of cotton as was held iu 250 pounds of my compost i therefore put 500 pounds of compost on each acre re storing double what the crop of the year before had taken out the re sult was that i made four bales extra i then restored double what the twelve bales had taken out and made twenty three bales i doubled the restora tion the next year and got forty-seven bales i doubled again and this year have at least eighty bales the manure cost me 3.60 a thou sand pounds the first year i put 500 pounds to the acre â€” cost 1.80 an acre or 111 for sixty-five acres but try crop rose from eight to twelve bales the extra four bales giving me 200 surplus or 83 net on my manure next year my manure 1,000 pounds to the acre cost 235 j but my crop increased to twenty-three b;i!es from eight on unmanured land these extra bales give me 750 or a net profit on manure of 516 the next year i used 2,000 pounds per acre at a cost 7.25 an acre or 471 for total but my crop went from eight to forty-seven bales giving increased income of 1,500 this i year i use 4,000 pounds on an acre j costing 14.50 or 942 for total nian i ure but my crop is at least eighty ! bales with this manure where it was eight without this increase of sev ! enty-two bales is worth 3,600 de duct cost of manure 940 and we have 2,650 as the profit on use of manure and then the land is so much richer certainly it is worth 100 an acre where it was formerly worth 5 you must credit the manure with ! thia i shall double my manuring next year putting 8,000 pounds to the acre i believe i will get 150 bales : from the 65 acres i hope to push it up to three bales an acre i have a few \ acres on which i put 10,000 pounds of compost as an experiment and ev â– ery acre of it will give me three bales this year the formula for the compost here is my formula take thirty i bushels of well-rotted stable manure or well-rotted organic matter as leaves muck etc and scatter it about three inches thick upon a piece of ground so situated that water will not statnd on it but shed off in every di rection the thirty bushels will weigh about nine hundred pounds take two hundred pounds of good phosphates which cost me 22.50 per ton delivered making the 200 pounds cost 2.25 and 100 pounds kainit which cost me by the ton 14 deliv ered or 70 cents for 100 pounds ami mix the acid phosphate and kainit thoroughly then scatter evenly on the manure then next thirty bush els green cotton seed aud distribute evenly over the pile and wet them thoroughly ; they will wei-h nine hundred pounds take again two hun dred pounds acid phosphate and one hundred pounds kainit mix and spread over the seed begin on the manure and keep on in this way building up your heap layer by layei until you get it as high as conveni ent then cover with six inches of rich earth from the fence corners and leave at least a week ; when ready tc haul to the field cut with a spade or pickaxe square down and mix as thoroughly as possible now we have thirty bushels of manure weigh ing nine hundred pounds and three hundred pounds chemicals in the first layer and thirty bushels cotton seeds weighing nine hundred pounds and three hundred pounds of chemicals in the second layer and these two layers combined for the perfect compost you perceive that the weight is 2,400 valued at cost ia : 30 bushels cotton seed - - 3.75 400 pounds acid phosphate - 4.50 200 pounds kainit - - 1.40 stable manure nominal total - - - 9.60 or for 2,400 pounds a total value of nine dollars and sixty-five cents this mixture makes practically a perfect manure for cotton and a splen did application for corn it restores to the soil everything the cotton toek from it except silica which is in the soil in inexhaustible quantity so that when you put in a larger quanti ty of these than the cotton took out your soil is evidently richer i have shown you the money profit in man ure i've shown you the added val ue it gives to land there are many other advantages you make your crop quicker and with less danger i made last year mark this forty seven bales on sixty-five acres in three months and five days it was plant ! ed june 5th and the caterpiler finish ed it on september 10th i showed the agricultural society a stalk five fret high with 126 bolls by actual count on it the seed from which this i plant grew was planted just fifty-nine j days before cotton grown this way j can be picked with half the cost and ; time of ordinary cotton on my cot i ton land this year i raised 100 bush ( els of oats to the acre and after clean i ing off the stubble 1 plandted the i cotton one stalk of which 1 showed the convention 1 ' one is not to drop tiie cotton seed in a continuous row but simply to put a few seed in the hill where you want a plant by strewing the seed in a sprinkled row there is a great waste a col ton seed is like an egg when the chick is born there is noth ing but the shell left the fertilizing power of this seed is lost worse than this it draws from the soil for the ! elements that make it grow it is i left to deplete the soil in this way for ! two weeks at least and is then chop ped down leaving only one out of ! twenty plants to grow to fruitage my plan is to plant four or five seed ' in a hill the hills to stand in four feet squares of these i would let two plants to the hill grow to perfec tion it takes from two to four ! bushels of seed to plant an acre in the ! old way by my plan a peck to the acre is enough and the soil is not drawn to support a multitude of sur plus plants for two or three weeks planting in four foot squares is belter than the old way cotton is a sun plant and needs room for its roots wneu cramped to 12 or 15 inches it cannot attain its perfect growth my aim is to put the plants two together in four foot squares and average 75 to 150 bolls to the plant this will give me a pound of seed cotton to the plant or three bales to the acre i never touch it with a ho the growth of cotton comes from the spreading filaments that reach out from the root and feed it li these are destroyed the growth stops until they are restored i am satisfied that three hoeings lost me eighteen days of growth or six days each 1 run a shallow plow along the cotton rows and never go deep enough to c it the roots but there are more details in which men may differ the main thing is the intensive system of ma nuring and the husbanding all the droppings and wastage of the farm for compost i can take 100 acres of land in georgia and at a nominal cost can bring its production from a sixth of a bale to three bales an acre in five years auy man can do it my tenants are adopting the in tensive plan and are very much en couraged some few neighbors are using ruy formula i have sent out is.pposefive hundred formulas for composting the speech x made be fore the agricultural association crea ted more excitement than anything for years the members did not rel ish my statements i saw plainly they sent e g greer the secretary to milledgeville to see my crops and verity my statements he is to-day the most enthusiastic man in georgia over the system i am working on you understand added mr fur man in conclusion that i have no possible interest iu the matter outside of my crops 1 have uu receipt to sell no phosphates no fancy seed no land what i have done lias been with common seed on poor land with ! j cheap manure and any man without , : price or purchase can do what i have jdone i am satisfied to make my i money out of tlie ground i want none j from my fellow-farmers the difficulty with us all is that Â» i we try to farm too much land i'm â€¢ , good for 3,000 with two mules and i j sixty-five acres next year i'll beat ! this in tlie meantime i'm hi ing ing up twenty-five new acres i nev i er want over one hundred acres these i j i will cultivate with three mule and i'll make 250 bales of cotton on them besides all the corn and oats i need i am anxious lie added to see my plan adopted if it is done we shall have the best state in the world why look at france her recupera tive power i's the wonder of the world j and what is it based on simply that ishe can raise two crops â€” one of those i a lentil crop â€” in one season 15ut in middle georgia i can raise three crops per season ou a piece of land and leave it richer than when i started viz outs cotton or corn and peas there is nothing like it jive me 100 acres of land like the sixty-five that i own nÂ»w and i don't want an orange grove or a factory or a truck farm or anything else i can live on my 100 acres of georgia scrub land like a king and lay up money every 1 ' â– 3 â„¢"" < â„¢"â„¢"^Â»^ year any ( f ( , r gian can have this i in five years if he â€¢.â– ;, ft the rule i have followi-d will |> r ii - i ;.. as the sun brii gs uat mid light ! 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